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104 Bible Verses about Addiction
Vices have serious consequences, not just physically, but spiritually too. They can really tie you down. You might think it's impossible to break free from whatever's got a hold of you, but I want to share the best antidote there is: the blood of Jesus.
When you come to Him and ask for His help, He's faithful and just to strengthen you in your weaknesses. It's not about your own power, because you can't do it on your own. It's about Christ's transforming power working in you.
So don't give up. As long as you're still breathing, there's hope. Jesus can change your life and make you a new person if you just ask Him and seek Him. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.
As the Bible says in Isaiah 5:11 (NIV): "Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine."
All things be leaveful to me, but not all things be speedful. All things be leaveful to me, but I shall not be brought down under any man’s power.
Wake ye, and pray ye, that ye enter not into temptation; for the spirit is ready, but the flesh is sick, [or unstable, or unsteadfast].
Be ye sober, and wake ye, for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion goeth about, seeking whom he shall devour.
Do not thou be in the feasts of drinkers, neither in the oft eatings of them, that bring together fleshes to eat.For men giving attention to drinks, and giving morsels together, shall be wasted, and napping shall be clothed with clothes rent.
Do not ye be deceived; for evil speeches, [or false doctrine], destroy good conduct [or corrupt good virtues].
To whom is woe? to whose father is woe? to whom be chidings? to whom be ditches? to whom be wounds without cause? to whom is putting out of eyes?desire thou not of his meats, in whom is the bread of lying.Whether not to them, that dwell in wine, and study to drink [up] all of cups?Behold thou not [the] wine, when it sparkleth, when the colour thereof shineth in a glass cup. It entereth sweetly,but at the last it shall bite as an adder, and as a cockatrice it shall shed abroad venoms.
Jesus answered to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, each man that doeth sin, is [the] servant of sin.
For if we planted together be made to the likeness of his death, also we shall be of the likeness of his rising again;witting this thing, that our old man is crucified together, that the body of sin be destroyed, that we serve no more to sin.
Temptation take not you, but man’s temptation; for God is true, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above that that ye may; but he shall make with temptation also purveyance, that ye may suffer [or sustain].
For the grace of God, our Saviour, hath appeared to all men,and taught us, that we forsake wickedness [or unpiety], and worldly desires, and live soberly, and justly, and piously in this world,
but be ye clothed in the Lord Jesus Christ, and do ye not the busyness [or the cares] of flesh in desires.
Wine is a lecherous thing, and drunkenness is full of noise; whoever delighteth in these, shall not be wise.
And the works of the flesh be open, which be fornication, unclean-ness, unchastity, lechery,Lo! I, Paul, say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall nothing profit to you.service of false gods [or serving of idols], witchcrafts, enmities, strivings [or strives], indignations, wraths, chidings, dissensions, sects [or heresies],envies, manslayings, drunkennesses, unmeasurable eatings [or gluttonies], and things like to these, which I say to you before, as I have told to you before, for they that do such things, shall not have the kingdom of God.
As a city open, and without compass of walls; so is a man that may not refrain his spirit in speaking.
As a dog that turneth again to his spewing [or As an hound that turneth again to his vomit]; so is an unprudent man, that rehearseth his folly.
A! Lemuel, do not thou give wine to kings; for no privacy there is, where drunkenness reigneth.Lest peradventure they drink, and forget dooms, and change the cause of the sons of a poor man.
I thought in mine heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I should lead over my soul to wisdom, and that I would eschew folly, till I should see, what were profitable to the sons of men; in which deed the number of days of their life under the sun is needful.
Woe to you that rise altogether early to follow drunkenness, and to drink till to eventide, that ye burn with wine.
Woe to you that be mighty to drink wine, and be strong to meddle [or mingle] drunkenness;
But also they knew not for wine, and erred for drunkenness; the priest and prophet knew not for drunken-ness; they were sopped up of wine, they erred in drunkenness; they knew not a prophet, they knew not doom.For why all boards were filled with spewing and filths, so that there was no more place.
A part thereof is ashes; an unwise heart shall worship it, and he shall not deliver his soul, neither he shall say, A strong leasing is in my right hand.
Woe to you, that think unprofitable thing, and work evil in your beds; in the morrowtide light they do it, for the hand of them is against God.
No man may serve two lords, for either he shall hate the one, and love the tother; either he shall sustain the one, and despise the other. Ye may not serve God and riches.
All ye that travail, and be charged, come to me, and I shall fulfill [or shall refresh] you.Take ye my yoke on you, and learn ye of me, for I am mild and meek in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.and said to him, Art thou he that shall come, or we abide another?For my yoke is soft [or sweet], and my charge is light [or easy].
and dis-ease of the world, and deceit of riches, and other charge of covetousness entereth, and strangleth the word, and it is made without fruit.
And he said to them, See ye, and beware of all covetousness; for the life of a man is not in the abundance of the things, which he wieldeth.
No servant may serve to two lords; for either he shall hate the one, and love the other; either he shall draw [or cleave] to the one, and despise the other. Ye may not serve to God and to riches.
Know ye not, that to whom ye give you servants to obey to, ye be servants of that thing, to which ye have obeyed, either of sin to death, either of obedience to rightwiseness?
I say that thing that is of man, for the unsteadfastness, [or the infirmity, or unstableness], of your flesh. But as ye have given your members to serve to uncleanness, and to wickedness into wickedness, so now give ye your members to serve to rightwiseness into holiness.
But I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good; for will lieth to me, but I find not to perform good thing.For I do not that good thing that I will, but I do that evil thing that I will not.For that woman that is under an husband, is bound to the law, while the husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is delivered [or is unbound] from the law of the husband.And if I do that evil thing that I will not, I work not it, but the sin that dwelleth in me.
Therefore, brethren, I beseech you by the mercy of God, that ye give your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, and your service reasonable.loving together the charity of brotherhood. Each come before to worship other [or Coming before together in honour];not slow in busyness, fervent in spirit, serving to the Lord,joying in hope, patient in tribulation, busy in prayer,giving good to the needs of saints, keeping hospitality.Bless ye men that pursue you; bless ye, and do not ye curse;for to joy with men that joy, for to weep with men that weep.Feel ye the same thing together; not understanding, [or savouring, or cunning], high things, but consenting to meek things, [following meek fathers]. Do not ye be prudent with yourselves;to no man yielding evil for evil, but purvey ye good things, not only before God, but also before all men.If it may be done, that that is of you, have ye peace with all men.Ye most dear brethren, not defending, [or avenging], yourselves, but give ye place to wrath [or ire]; for it is written, The Lord saith, To me vengeance, and I shall yield.And do not ye be conformed to this world, but be ye reformed in newness of your wit, that ye prove which is the will of God, good, and well pleasing, and perfect.
As in [the] day wander we honestly, not in superfluous feasts [or in oft eatings], and drunkennesses, not in beds and unchastities, not in strife and in envy;but be ye clothed in the Lord Jesus Christ, and do ye not the busyness [or the cares] of flesh in desires.
Know ye not, that ye be the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?And if any [man] defouleth the temple of God, God shall lose him; for the temple of God is holy, which ye be.
Whether ye know not, that your members be the temple of the Holy Ghost, that is in you, whom ye have of God, and ye be not your own?Whether ye know not, that saints shall deem this world? And if the world shall be deemed by you, be ye unworthy to deem the least things?For ye be bought with great price. Glorify ye, and bear ye God in your body.
Know ye not, that they that run in a furlong, all run, but one taketh the prize? So run ye, that ye catch.Each man that striveth in fight, abstaineth him from all things; and they, that they take a corruptible crown, but we an uncorrupt.Therefore I run so, not as to an uncertain thing; thus I fight, not as beating the air;but I chastise my body, and bring it into servage [or servitude]; lest peradventure when I preach to others, I myself be made reprovable.
All things be leaveful to me, but not all things be speedful. All things be leaveful to me, but not all things edify.
Therefore if any new creature is in Christ, the old things be passed. Lo! all things be made new,
and what consent to the temple of God with maumets? [or idols?] And ye be the temple of the living God, as the Lord saith, For I shall dwell in them, and I shall walk among them; and I shall be [the] God of them, and they shall be a people to me.For which thing go ye out of the middle of them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and touch not unclean thing; and I shall receive you,and I shall be to you into a Father, and ye shall be to me into sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.
Therefore, most dearworthy brethren, we that have these promises, cleanse we us from all filth of the flesh and of the spirit, doing holiness in the dread of God.
For, brethren, ye be called into freedom [or into liberty]; only give ye not freedom [or liberty] into occasion of flesh, but by charity of [the] Spirit serve ye together.
And I say to you in Christ, walk ye in Spirit, and ye shall not perform the desires of the flesh.For the flesh coveteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these be adversaries together, that ye do not all things that ye will.
But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity, [or good will], goodness, mildness, faith,temperance, continence, chastity; against such things is no law.
Do ye away by the old living [or after the first living], the old man, that is corrupt by the desires of error;and be ye renewed [or made new again] in the spirit of your soul;and clothe ye the new man, which is made after God in rightwiseness and holiness of truth.
And do not ye be drunk of wine, in which is lechery [or is luxury], but be ye filled with the Holy Ghost;
whose end is death, whose god is the womb, and the glory in [the] confusion of them, that savour [or that understand] earthly things.
Therefore slay ye your members, which be on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lechery, evil covetousness, and avarice, which is service of maumets [or simulacra];
But now put ye away all things, wrath, indignation, malice, blasphemy and foul words of your mouth.
Therefore sleep we not as others; but wake we, and be we sober.For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken, be drunken in the night.But we that be of the day, be sober, clothed in the habergeon of faith and of charity, and in the helmet of hope of health.
Abstain [ye] you from all evil species, [or likeness].And God himself of peace make you holy by all things, that your spirit be kept whole, and soul, and body, without complaint, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For why God gave not to us the spirit of dread, but of virtue, and of love, and of soberness.
And flee thou [the] desires of youth, but follow thou rightwiseness, faith, charity, peace, with them that inwardly call [or that in-call] the Lord of a clean heart.
and taught us, that we forsake wickedness [or unpiety], and worldly desires, and live soberly, and justly, and piously in this world,
Therefore we that have so great a cloud of witnesses put to [us], do we away all charge, and sin standing about us, and by patience run we to the battle, [or the strife, or fight], purposed to us,And they in time of few days taught us by their will; but this Father teacheth to that thing that is profitable, in receiving the hallowing of him.And each chastising in [this] present time seemeth to be not of joy, but of sorrow; but afterward it shall yield fruit of rightwiseness most peaceable to men exercised by it.For which thing raise ye [up] slow hands, and knees unbound,and make ye rightful steps to your feet; that no man halting err, but more be healed.Pursue ye peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see God.Behold ye, that no man fail to the grace of God, that no root of bitterness burrowing upward hinder [us], and many be defouled by it;that no man be lecher, either unholy, as Esau, which for one [meal’s] meat sold his first things, [or heritage].For know ye, that afterward he coveting to inherit blessing, was reproved. For he found not place of penance, though he sought it with tears.But ye have not come to the fire able to be touched, and able to come to, and to the whirlwind [or the great wind], and mist, and tempest,and sound of trump, and voice of words; which they that heard, excused them, that the word should not be made to them.beholding into the maker of faith, and the perfect ender, Jesus; which when joy was purposed to him, he suffered the cross, and despised confusion, and sitteth on the right half of the seat of God.
No man when he is tempted, say, that he is tempted of God; for why God is not a tempter of evil things, for he tempteth no man.But each man is tempted, drawn and stirred, of his own coveting. [Soothly each man is tempted of his own coveting, drawn from reason, and snared, or deceived.]Afterward [or Then] coveting, when it hath conceived, bringeth forth sin; but sin, when it is [ful] filled, engendereth death.
Know ye, my brethren most loved, be each man swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to wrath;My brethren, deem ye all joy, when ye fall into diverse temptations,for the wrath of man worketh not the rightwiseness of God.For which thing cast ye away all uncleanness, and plenty of malice, and in mildness, receive ye the word that is planted, that may save your souls.
For which thing be ye gird the loins of your soul, sober, perfect, and hope ye into that grace that is proffered to you by the showing of Jesus Christ,as sons of obedience, not made like to the former desires of your unknowingness [or your ignorance],but like him that hath called you holy; that also yourselves be holy in all living;
Most dear, I beseech you, as comelings [or as guests], and pilgrims, to abstain you from fleshly desires, that fight against the soul;
Therefore for Christ suffered in flesh, be ye also armed by the same thinking; for he that suffered in flesh ceased from sins,each man as he hath received grace, ministering it into each other [or ministering each to other], as good dispensers of the manyfold grace of God.If any man speaketh, speak he as the words of God; if any man ministereth, as of the virtue which God ministereth; that God be honoured in all things by Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom is glory and lordship into worlds of worlds. Amen.Most dear brethren, do not ye go in pilgrimage in fervour, that is made to you to temptation, as if any new thing befall to you;but commune ye with the passions of Christ, and have ye joy, that also ye be glad, and have joy in the revelation of his glory.If ye be despised for the name of Christ, ye shall be blessed; for that that is of the honour, and of the glory, and of the virtue of God, and the Spirit that is his, shall rest on you.But no man of you suffer as a manslayer, either a thief, either curser, either a desirer of other men’s goods [or things];but if he suffer as a christian man, shame he not, but glorify he God in this name.For time is, that doom begin at God’s house; and if it begin first at us, what end shall be of them, that believe not to the gospel?And if a just man scarcely shall be saved, where shall the unfaithful man and the sinner appear?Therefore and they that suffer by the will of God, betake their souls in good deeds to the faithful Maker of nought.that that is left now of time in flesh live not now to the desires of men, but to the will of God.For the time that is passed is enough to the will of heathen men to be ended, which walked in lecheries, and lusts, in much drinking of wine, in unmeasurable [or oft] eatings, and drinkings, and unleaveful worshipping of maumets [or of idols].
Be ye sober, and wake ye, for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion goeth about, seeking whom he shall devour.Whom against-stand ye, strong in the faith, witting that the same passion is made to that brotherhood of you, that is in the world.
And bring ye in all busyness, and minister in your faith virtue, and in virtue knowing [or science];in knowing [or in science], abstinence, in abstinence patience, in patience piety;in piety, love of brotherhood, and in love of brotherhood charity.
and promise freedom [or liberty] to them, when they be servants of corruption. For of whom any man is overcome, of him also he is servant.
Do not ye love the world, nor those things that be in the world. If any man loveth the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.For all thing that is in the world, is covetousness of flesh, and covetousness of eyes, and pride of life, which is not of the Father, but it is of the world.And the world shall pass, and the covetousness of it; but he that doeth the will of God, dwelleth [into] without end.
He that doeth sin, is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. In this thing the Son of God appeared, that he undo the works of the devil.
For all thing that is born of God, overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, our faith.And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
We know, that each man that is born of God, sinneth not; but the generation of God keepeth him, and the wicked toucheth him not.
Blessed is the man, that goeth not in the counsel of wicked men; and stood not in the way of sinners, and sat not in the chair of pestilence.But his will is in the law of the Lord; and he shall bethink in the law of him day and night.And he shall be as a tree, which is planted beside the runnings of waters; that shall give his fruit in his time. And his leaf shall not fall down; and all things, whichever he shall do, shall have prosperity.
The psalm of David. The Lord governeth me, and nothing shall fail to me;in the place of pasture there he hath set me. He nourished me on the water of refreshing;he converted my soul. He led me forth on the paths of rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; for his name.
Just [or rightwise] men cried, and the Lord heard them; and delivered them from all their tribulations.The Lord is nigh [to] them that be of troubled heart; and he shall save meek men in spirit.
God, make thou a clean heart in me; and make thou new a rightful spirit in my entrails.Cast thou me not away from thy face; and take thou not away from me thine holy spirit.Give thou to me the gladness of thine health; and confirm thou me with the principal spirit.
And they cried to the Lord, when they were set in tribulation; and he delivered them from their needinesses.And he led them out of dark-nesses, and [the] shadow of death; and brake the bonds of them.
Dread thou not, for I am with thee; bow thou not away, for I am thy God. I comforted thee, and helped thee; and the right hand of my just [or rightwise] man up-took thee.
Whether not this is more the fasting, which I choose? Unbind thou the bindings together of unpity, either of cruelty, release thou [the] burdens pressing down; deliver thou them free, that be broken, and break thou each burden.
For I know the thoughts which I think on you, saith the Lord, the thoughts of peace, and not of torment, that I give to you an end and patience.
And I shall give to you a new heart, and I shall set a new spirit in the midst of you; and I shall do away an heart of stone from your flesh, and I shall give to you an heart of flesh,and I shall set my spirit in the midst of you. And I shall make that ye go in my commandments, and [that ye] keep and work my dooms.
That if thy right eye cause thee to stumble, pull it out, and cast it from thee; for it speedeth to thee, that one of thy members perish, than that all thy body go into hell.Blessed be poor men in spirit, for the kingdom of heavens is theirs. [Blessed be the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.]And if thy right hand cause thee to stumble, cut it away, and cast [it] from thee; for it speedeth to thee, that one of thy members perish, than that all thy body go into hell.
Therefore seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his rightwiseness, and all these things shall be cast to you.
Jesus beheld, and said to them, With men this thing is impossible; but with God all things be possible.
The Spirit of the Lord is [up] on me, for which thing he anointed me; he sent me to preach [or evangelize] to poor men, to heal contrite men in heart, and to preach remission to prisoners [or captives], and sight to blind men, and to deliver broken men into remission;
For God loved so the world [or Forsooth God so loved the world], that he gave his one begotten Son, that each man that believeth in him perish not, but have everlasting life.For God sent not his Son into the world, that he judge the world, but that the world be saved by him.
And the law entered, that guilt should be plenteous; but where guilt was plenteous, grace was more plenteous [or abounded].
Therefore now nothing of condemnation is to them that be in Christ Jesus, which wander not after the flesh.For if Christ is in you, the body is dead for sin [or from sin], but the Spirit liveth for justifying.And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus Christ from death dwelleth in you, he that raised Jesus Christ from death, shall quicken also your deadly bodies, for the Spirit of him that dwelleth in you.Therefore, brethren, we be debtors, not to the flesh, that we live after the flesh.For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye by the Spirit slay the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live.For whoever be led by the Spirit of God, these be the sons of God.For ye have not taken again the spirit of servage in dread, but ye have taken the Spirit of adoption of sons, that is, sons of God by grace, in which we cry, Abba, Father.And that Spirit yieldeth witnessing to our spirit, that we be the sons of God;if sons, and heirs, heirs forsooth of God, and heirs together with Christ; if nevertheless we suffer together, that also we be glorified together.And I deem, that the passions of this time be not even worthy, to the glory to coming [or to come], that shall be showed in us.For the abiding of creature abideth the showing of the sons of God.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath delivered me from the law of sin, and of death, [or the law of sin, and death].
Wherefore, ye most dearworthy to me, flee ye from the worshipping of maumets [or idols].
For we walking in the flesh, fight not after the flesh.For the arms or armours of our knighthood be not fleshly, but mighty by God to the destruction of strengths [or of wardings].And we destroy counsels, and all highness that higheth [or raised] itself against the science of God, and drive into captivity all understanding into the service of Christ.
Here afterward, brethren, be ye comforted in the Lord, and in the might of his virtue.Clothe you with the armour of God, that ye may stand against the ambushings, [or assailings], of the devil.
trusting this same thing, that he that began in you a good work, shall perform it till into the day of Jesus Christ.
Be ye nothing busy, but in all prayer and beseeching, with doing of thankings, be your askings known at God.And the peace of God, that passeth all wit, keep your hearts and understandings in Christ Jesus.
For we have not a bishop, that may not have compassion on our infirmities, but was tempted by all things by likeness, without sin.Therefore go we with trust to the throne of his grace, that we get mercy, and find grace in covenable help.
and hold we the confession of our hope, bowing to no side, [or unbowing, or unpliable]; for he is true that hath made the promise.
and the prayer of faith shall save the sick man [or shall save the sick], and the Lord shall make him light; and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven to him.Therefore acknowledge ye each to other your sins, and pray ye each for other, that ye be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man is much worth.
And he said, that sat in the throne, Lo! I make all things new. And he said to me, Write thou, for these words be most faithful and true.